The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century is an 1899 racialist book by the British-German philosopher Houston Stewart Chamberlain. In the book, Chamberlain advances various racialist and especially vö
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Nordicism is a racialist ideology which views the "Nordic race" as a superior racial group. Some notable and influential Nordicist works include Madison Grant's book The Passing of the Great Race; Art
The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century
…force in European civilization and the Jews as a negative one. The book was his best-selling work. Published in German, the book advocates a form of Nordicism and focuses on the controversial pseudoscientific notion that Western civilization is deeply marked by the influence of the Teutonic peoples. Chamberlain…
Meyers Blitz-Lexikon (Leipzig, 1932) shows German war hero Karl von Müller as an example of the Nordic type.
Hans F. K. Günther (1891–1968), prominent German racial theorist who helped to popularise Nordicism in his country
Adolf Hitler was a proponent of the concept of the Aryan race and of Aryanism. He viewed the Nordic racial subtype as the apex of the racial hierarchy within the Aryan race.
Illustration of the Nordic type from a Nazi wall chart (c. 1935)